TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cerrito,Patricia B.
AU  - Cerrito,John
TI  - Clinical data mining for physician decision making and investigating health outcomes: methods for prediction and analysis
SN  - 9781615209057 (h/c)
AV  - R859.7.D36 C47 2010
U1  - 610.285 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Hershey, PA
PB  - Medical Information Science Reference
KW  - Medical informatics
KW  - Local
KW  - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Data mining
N1  - "Premier Reference Source" --Cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preprocessing the data -- Errors and missing values in the dataset -- Introduction to the use of MEPS (medical expenditure panel survey) -- Preprocessing Medpar data -- Extracting data from the national inpatient sample -- Creating a one-to-one relationship in the data from a many-to-many -- Merging different datasets to allow for a complete analysis (inpatient, outpatient, physician visits, medications) -- Introduction to analysis using time components -- More survival data mining of multiple time of endpoints -- Using the data to define patient compliance -- Compression of diagnosis and procedure codes -- Comparisons of patient severity indices -- Decision trees and their development : use of data to determine the quality of care -- Example of diabetes using CMS data -- Example of breathing illness, asthma and COPD using MEPS data -- Example of wound care using Medpar data
N2  - "This book shows how the investigation of healthcare databases can be used to examine physician decisions to develop evidence-based treatment guidelines that optimize patient outcomes"--Provided by publisher
ER  -